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Learn C# in 7 days

By : Gaurav Aroraa
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Learn C# in 7 days

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By: Gaurav Aroraa

Overview of this book

This book takes a unique approach to teach C# to absolute beginners. You’ll learn the basics of the language in seven days. It takes a practical approach to explain the important concepts that build the foundation of the C# programming language. The book begins by teaching you the basic fundamentals using real-world practical examples and gets you acquainted with C# programming. We cover some important features and nuances of the language in a hands-on way, helping you grasp the concepts in a fluid manner. Later, you’ll explore the concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) through a real-world example. Then we dive into advanced-level concepts such as generics and collections, and you’ll get acquainted with objects and LINQ. Towards the end, you’ll build an application that covers all the concepts explained in the book. By the end of this book, you will have next-level skills and a good knowledge of the fundamentals of C#.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Writing asynchronous code


Before we discuss the code in async way, lets first discuss our normal code that is nothing but a synchronous code, let's consider following code snippet:

public class FilePolling 
{ 
    public void PoleAFile(string fileName) 
    { 
        Console.Write($"This is polling file:
        {fileName}"); 
        //file polling stuff goes here 
    } 
} 

The preceding code snippet is short and sweet. It tells us it is polling to a specific file. Here system has to wait to complete the operation of poling a file before it start next. This is what synchronous code is. Now, consider a scenario where we need not wait to complete the operation of this function to start another operation or function. To meet such scenarios, we have asynchronous coding, this is possible with the keyword, async.

Consider following code:

public async void PoleAFileAsync(string fileName) 
{ 
    Console.Write($"This is polling file: {fileName}"); 
    //file polling async stuff goes here 
} 

Just...